Dieter Dowe

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Dieter Dowe (born January 16, 1943 in Kempen ) is a German historian and was head of the Historical Research Center of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn until 2008 .

academic career

Dowe studied history , Latin , philosophy and German studies , graduating with the doctorate to the Dr. phil. 1969 at the University of Bonn .

Since receiving his doctorate, he has been a member of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Initially he worked as a member of the Social and Contemporary History department and from 1990 to 2008 as the head of the Historical Research Center of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung ( archive of social democracy , library, social and contemporary history department , Karl-Marx-Haus in Trier : Museum and study center) and until 2005 of the Institute for Social History eV Braunschweig-Bonn . In 1999 he was appointed professor.

Other activities

At the “ Archives for Social History ” he acted as editor (1970–1989) and co-editor (1975ff.). He is editor of the " Reprints on Social History at JHW Dietz Nachf.", The "Series: Political and Social History" of the Historical Research Center of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (in collaboration with Michael Schneider ), the series "The German Social Democracy after 1945" , the series “History of the international work of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung” (in collaboration with Pia Bungarten, Ernst Kerbusch and Uwe Optenhögel), the series “Sources on the history of the German trade union movement in the 20th century” (with Michael Schneider and Anja Kruke ), the "Publications of the Institute for Social History eV Braunschweig-Bonn" and the series "History Discussion Group". From 1989 to 2016 Dieter Dowe was an honorary member of the board of the Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert-Gedenkstätte Foundation, and since 1995 he has been an honorary member of the board of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation .

Research priorities

Dowes research focuses on the history of the German labor movement from Vormärz and on the German social democracy to the Weimar Republic with (initially) regional emphasis on the Rhineland .

Others

Dieter Dowe lives in Sankt Augustin and Braunschweig and has two children from his late wife Dorothee Dowe, née. Schwartze and is married to the historian Heike Christina Mätzing (Technical University of Braunschweig).

Works

Monographs

  • Action and organization: labor movement, socialist and communist movement in the Prussian. Rhine Province 1820-1852 , University of Bonn 1969, DNB 482033185 (Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty Bonn July 9, 1969, 341 pages, 8).
  • Action and organization: Labor movement , socialist and communist movement in the Prussian Rhine Province 1820-1852 (= publication series of the research institute of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , Volume 78), Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, Hanover 1970, DNB 720057973 .
  • Bibliography on the history of the German labor movement, socialist and communist movement from its beginnings to 1863, taking into account the political, economic and social framework conditions. With an introduction. Reporting period 1945–1971 (1975) (= Archive for Social History , Supplement 5), Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1976, ISBN 3-87831-210-5 .
  • Two decades of research on the history of the labor movement in the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , Research Institute of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn 1982, DNB 820884006 .
  • Guide to the archives, libraries and research institutions on the history of the European labor movement (= Archive for Social History , Supplement Volume 11), Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1984, 227 pages, ISBN 3-87831-395-0 .
  • Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864), a citizen organizes the workers' movement (= Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. History discussion group: Series History Discussion Group , Issue 34), lecture in the House of the German East in Munich on the occasion of Ferdinand Lassalle's 175th birthday, on April 10, 2000, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Historical Research Center, Bonn ISBN 3-86077-906-0 .

editor

  • 140 years of Lassalle's General German Workers' Association founded in Leipzig in 1863 - on the early history of German social democracy: Documentation of an event on May 19, 2003 in the Old Trade Exchange in Leipzig / Dieter Dowe (ed.). Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Historical Research Center. Bonn, 2003 (History Discussion Group; 50). ISBN 3-89892-194-8
  • Reports on the negotiations of the unification of German workers' associations 1863 to 1869: reprints . Edited by Dieter Dowe. With an introduction by Shlomo Na'aman as well as a person index, magazine and newspaper index and place index by Max Schwarz. Berlin [u. a.]: Dietz Verl., 1980 (reprints on social history), ISBN 3-8012-2095-8
  • Brand (t) meister: Willy Brandt as Governing Mayor of Berlin in the mirror of the caricature in West and East. Edited by Dieter Dowe. Captions by Siegfried Heimann . Olzog, Munich [u. a.] 1996, ISBN 3-7892-9380-6 .
  • as co-editor: The German Trade Union Federation 1969–1975 (= sources on the history of the German trade union movement in the 20th century, Volume 16), Verlag JHW Dietz, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-8012-4218-3 .
  • Disagreement - but agree? On the history of the relationship between the SPD and the trade unions. An exhibition by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on the 100th anniversary of the " Mannheim Agreement " 1906, Bonn 2006, ISBN 978-3-89892-585-3

Essays

  • The workers' singer movement in Germany before the First World War - a cultural movement in the run-up to social democracy. In: working-class culture. Edited by Gerhard A. Ritter . Verlagsgruppe Athenäum, Hain, Scriptor, Hanstein, Königstein 1979, pp. 122–144.
  • The labor dispute in the cloth mills in the Lennep district (Bergisches Land) in 1850. In: Strike. On the history of the labor dispute in Germany during industrialization. Edited by Klaus Tenfelde and Heinrich Volkmann . Beck, Munich 1981, pp. 31-51.
  • The League of Communists in the Rhine Province after the revolution of 1848/49. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1970, pp. 267–297, special print from: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter. Vol. 34, 1970.
  • German social democracy from the beginning to the first world war. In: The Social Movement in Germany in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Karl Josef Rivinius. Among employees by Dieter Dowe [u. a.]. With 274 illustrations in the text and on plate, Moos, Munich 1978, pp. 37–60.
  • The Rhineland and Württemberg in comparison. In: European labor movements in the 19th century. Germany, Austria, England and France in comparison. Edited by Jürgen Kocka , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1983, pp. 77-105.
  • Methodological considerations on the problem of hunger in Germany in the first half of the 19th century. In: Worker Existence in the 19th Century. Standard of living and way of life of German workers and craftsmen. Edited by Werner Conze and Ulrich Engelhardt. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1981, pp. 202-234.
  • Agitate, organize, study! Wilhelm Liebknecht and the early German social democracy - Lecture on the occasion of the commemorative event of the city of Gießen and the Upper Hessian History Association on the 100th anniversary of Wilhelm Liebknecht's death. Publication by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2000 ISBN 3-86077-942-7 ( online as PDF file )
  • Friedrich Ebert 1871–1925: from workers' leader to president . Exhibition by the Reich President Friedrich Ebert Memorial Foundation, Heidelberg and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn; Booklet with the main texts of the exhibition [ed. by Dieter Dowe]. Research institute of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, historical research center. 5th edition Bonn, 2005 (History Discussion Group; 9) ISBN 3-89892-347-9

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